I want to ground this properly. I'm writing as someone trauma-informed, not as a clinician. What's here comes from training, lived experience, and years of watching patterns play out in this community. It isn't therapy, and it isn't a substitute for therapeutic support. But it is a conversation I believe we need to have more directly, and more honestly, than we often do.

Pup mental health. Written from inside the community.

ALT: a lizard is laying on the ground and looking at the camera .